[lassoman]

That's exactly what I though! Holly cow......maybe I should take my name off the organ donors list. Have heard of people 'coming back to life' after being incorrectly pronounced dead (even young ones) and from memory there has been a few cases where people were buried alive, waking up in the coffin only to find out that they will come out of it alive again. If that is the common practice I think that medical practitioners should start questioning their suitability for this job!

[zachrose]

This just reminded me of a short story called "Guilt" by Judy Budnitz. This American Life has a transcript of a reading, scroll down to "Act Four."

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/256/t...

[coldtea]

>That's exactly what I though! Holly cow......maybe I should take my name off the organ donors list.

Heh, doctors have been known to be eager to "be done" with organ donors in some cases that look dead or dying enough. What's a seemingly dying person compared to all those that get to get new body parts, after all?

Combine it with stories of people coming back from comas or near-death, and it doesn't sound that good.

[vvdcect]

There are stories of people who ate fugu and were presumed to be dead but woke up after a few days